BDB 301-302 Dilbilim Temel Kavramları I (Introduction to Linguistics)

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BDB 301-302 Dilbilim Temel Kavramları I

(Introduction to Linguistics)

Dr. Mustafa Güleç

Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi (DTCF)

Batı Dilleri ve Edebiyatları Bölümü,

Hollanda Dili ve Edebiyatı Anabilim Dalı

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What is Neurolinguistics?

• Neurolinguistics is the study of the neural mechanisms in the human brain that control the comprehension, production, and acquisition of language. As an interdisciplinary field, neurolinguistics draws methods and theories from fields such as neuroscience, linguistics , cognitive science, communication disorders and neuropsychology. Researchers are drawn to the field from a variety of backgrounds, bringing along a variety of experimental techniques as well as widely varying theoretical perspectives. Much work in neurolinguistics is informed by models in psycholinguistics and theoretical linguistics, and is focused on investigating how the brain can implement the processes that theoretical and psycholinguistics propose are necessary in producing and comprehending language.

Neurolinguists study the physiological mechanisms by which the brain processes information related to language, and evaluate linguistic and psycholinguistic theories, using aphasiology, brain imaging, electrophysiology, and computer modeling

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurolinguistics

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Neurolinguistics

•If you know two languages, how do you switch between them and how do you keep them from interfering with each other? If you learn two languages from birth, how is your brain different from the brain of someone who speaks only one language, and why? Is the left side of your brain really ‘the language side’? If you lose the ability to talk or to read because of a stroke or other brain injury, how well can you learn to talk again? What kinds of therapy are known to help, and what new kinds of language therapy look promising? Do people who read languages written from left to right (like English or Spanish) have language in a different place from people who read languages written from right to left (like Hebrew and Arabic)? What about if you read a language that is written using some other kind of symbols instead of an alphabet, like Chinese or Japanese? If you're dyslexic, in what way is your brain different from the brain of someone who has no trouble reading? How about if you stutter?

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Neurolinguistics

• As you can see, neurolinguistics is deeply entwined with psycholinguistics, which is the study of the language processing steps that are required for speaking and understanding words and sentences, learning first and later languages, and also of language processing in disorders of speech, language, and reading.

• Information about these disorders is available from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA), at

• http://www.asha.org/public/

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What is Neuro Linguistic Programming and how does it work?

• Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is all about bringing about changes in perception, responsible communication and developing choices of responses or communication in a given situation. ... NLP works on the principle that everyone has all the resources they need to make positive changes in their own life.

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Is neurolinguistics a science?

• The Interdisciplinary Nature of Neurolinguistics.

• They include neurobiology, anthropology, chemistry, cognitive

science, and artificial intelligence. Thus, the humanities, and medical, natural, and social sciences, as well as technology are all

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What is the difference between psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics?

• is that psycholinguistics is (linguistics) the study of the comprehension and production of language in its spoken, written and signed forms while neurolinguistics is (linguistics) science concerned with the human brain mechanisms underlying the comprehension, production and abstract knowledge of language, be it spoken.

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What is neurolinguistics disorder?

• There are two types of language disorders: acquired language disorders and developmental language disorders. Acquired language disorders result from brain damage, while developmental language disorders do not.

• The study of aphasia, an acquired language disorder, is a central part of neurolinguistics.

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What is neurolinguistics PDF?

• Neurolinguistics is the study of language-brain relations.

• Neurolinguistics is by its nature an interdisciplinary enterprise, and straddles the borders between linguistics and other disciplines that are connected to the study of the mind/brain (mainly cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience).

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References:

•Patel, Aniruddh D. 2008. Music, Language, and the Brain. Oxford University Press.

•Ramus, Franck. 2006. Genes, brains and cognition: A roadmap for the cognitive scientist. Cognition 101, 247-269.

•Schwartz, Myrna F., Dell, Gary S., Martin, Nadine, Gahl, Susanne, & Sobel. P. (2006). A case- series test of the interactive two-step model of lexical access: Evidence from picture naming.

Journal of Memory and Language, 54, 228-264.

• Tse, C.-Y., Lee, C.-L., Sullivan, J., Garnsey, S.M., Dell, G.S., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (2007).

Imaging cortical dynamics of language processing with the event-related optical signal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104, 17157-17162.

• Turken, A.U. & Dronkers, N.F. The neural architecture of the language comprehension network:

converging evidence from lesion and connectivity analyses. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2011, 5, 1-20.

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